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October 12, Friday

Chapter 15:
1. 2nd Great Awakening
    • spread through huge "camp meetings"
    • feminization of religion: improved society (reforms)
      • prisons, mental institution, temperance, abolition, gender roles, and suffrage
      • 1848 first large meeting of women to talk about reformation
2. Women's domesticity
  • women's rights movement
3. Scientific Achievements
  • although ill health was still common
4. Artistic and Literature Achievements
5. Transcendentalism: truth comes to you through your inter light
Chapter 16:
1. Not everyone in the South owned lots of slaves, some didn't own any at all
2. Radical Abolitionism

October 11, Thursday

Document evaluation on Andrew Jackson, 30 points

October 10, Wednesday

Mr. Ehrhart absent, work on chapters 14-17

October 9, Tuesday

Chapter 13 handout due, quiz!!!
In class topics
  1. ~John Quincy Adams
  2. ~Mudslinging in the election of 1828
  3. -called Jackson's mother a prostitute and his wife an adultress
  4. -accused Adam's of being a 'pimp'
  5. ~Andrew Jackson
  6. -traits=hot head, spirited, irritable, emaciated
  7. 'Symbol of the masses'= common peoples president
  8. -inaugural Brawl; Jackson let everyone come to his inauguration, they wrecked the White House
  9. ~ Spoils system-people in political power basically gave their friends important political jobs.
  10. -Jackson brought younger people into the system, gave his supporters jobs, called it 'rotation in office', he said it was democratic
  11. ~ Tariff of Abominations, 1828
  12. -protective tariff; trap set by democrats for republicans (republicans walked right into it)
  13. -John Calhoun wrote the South Carolina Exposition. It called for nullification of the law.
  14. -Jackson said he will send the army to make them pay the tax.
  15. ~Trail of Tears
  16. -five civilized tribes; created their own government, and defended property rights. Jackson wanted land for white men.
  17. -forced uprooting of Indians, they were marched west of the Mississippi.
  18. -Jackson refuses to uphold federal law and doesn't listen to the Supreme Court or John Marshall.
  19. ~ Bank War-bank held too much power, Jackson didn't like it
  20. -Clay wanted to put the issue against Jackson, but Jackson still defeated him in the election of 1832.
  21. - Jackson vetoed the recharter.
  22. ~Whig Party=anti-Jacksonian, wealthy people, evangelical protestants.
  23. -wanted to have a national bank, and increase infrastructure.
  24. -for community; against people in power who acted out of self interest
  25. ~ Van Buren (Jackson wanted him to be president)
  26. -he was basically handed the Panic or 1837
  27. ~Panic of 1837=caused by British banks calling in loans, high speculation, failures of wheat crops
  28. ~Texas
  29. -Americans moved in and they wanted to have slaves, but Santa Anna wouldn't allow it
  30. -The Alamo was a big loss for Americans
  31. -eventually Texas does get its independence but doesn't come into the union because it would come in as a state that came in with slaves.
  32. ~The election of 1840 - High tide of democrac
  33. -candidates =Van Buren, William Henry Harrison
  34. - made William Henry Harrison look like a common person who lived in a log cabin and drank hard cider; wanted him to look like a common man. "Old Tippecanoe" "Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
  35. ~Two Party Systems
  36. -Whig Views=national harmony of society and community
  37. -Democratic Views=glorified liberty of the individual
  38. - similar views= commanded loyalty from people, both appealed to everybody.
  39. ~Varying Viewpoints
  40. -Jackson was kind of the cause for the economic depression, he was inhumane to the Indians; champion of the common man.